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| "Night of the Lepus" failed as a horror film because large bunnies are not that frightening. UOJ fanatics are just as terrifying. |
The closer we are to the Word itself, the more we understand.
I always look beyond the argumentation to the sources. Anyone can tell the authorities used from the argumentation. UOJ circles around the infallible writing of Walther, Pieper, JP Meyer, and Jack Kilcrease. Walther picked Pieper to carry on his false doctrine. JP Meyer was trained in it. Kilcrease needs a full-time job.
The UOJ Enthusiasts do not quote Luther except to look for one sentence that will supposedly prove their case, as if 99.9% of his writing is justification by faith, and the rest (the crucial passages!) are UOJ.
On LaughQuest they tried to prove UOJ from the Book of Concord. I remember one knock-out quotation on their side. I looked it up. The next sentence says that forgiveness comes only through faith. When I pointed that out, my response was buried under comments from the Stormtroopers.
Tom Hardt's essay had great material about Samuel Huber, the forerunner to WELS UOJ. The Stormtroopers answer that by avoiding the historical material and arguing Hardt as their authority, since he was in the bag for UOJ. Like the Little Sect apologists, Hardt dithers and plays with one version of UOJ versus another, as if it is better to die from arsenic than cyanide.
And then we have the living authorities. They have the Deposit of Faith (a Roman doctrine) that preserves the truth of UOJ from generation to generation. They agree with each other, so they must be correct. They remember that Robert Preus always taught UOJ, even though his final book contradicts their stories.
Best of all, Holy Mama Synod agrees with them. They actually have votes for it. That reminds me of this description of the Council of Ephesus, given during a travelogue, "The Council of Ephesus was where they voted that Mary was a virgin."
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| WELS advocates for the New NIV rely on Dr. Moo, their Babtist expert from Wheaton College, an obvious shill for Murdoch's mytho-porno NNIV. They will say UOJ is Biblical because the apostate Leftist NNIV added an "all" so "all" are now justified. Ta da!
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Brett Meyer
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"This is basically why they contend so strongly for 'objective' justification and go a step further than our Lutheran Confessions insisting that Objective Justification is the Chief article of Christian Faith, while our Confessions give that honor to justification by grace through faith" http://www.wlsessays.net/files/MuellerSymbols.pdf
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bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/)
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People from the Synodical Experts":
Sometimes church growth ideas backfire, like naming a church after the town or geographical location. For example, this pro-evolution church is named: Crooked Creek Baptist Church of Indianapolis. Now is it the Creek that is crooked, or the church? Evolution Weekend in Churches—An Atheist’s Fizzle: http://blogs.answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2012/02/10/evolution-weekend-in-churches-an-atheists-fizzle/ |
